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Chicago examiner wednesday wednesday Chicago febkuaky 6 1918 resiwteud potr two pt^'ntt'si in'fh'cago elsewhere n btp3Â«ltoÂ«lcc -Â»â€¢ iviclil vu andsubuhb3 three cents vol xvi no 40 a m air battles over u.s . front by newton c parke dozen planes eight above pershing line german gunners smarting from recent defeat shell defense less villages in american rear Illinois private hero of saturday brush wounded he spurns aid and rejoins ranhs i n s staff correspondent with the american army in france feb s the germans apparently anger ed at the effectiveness of our artil lery fire are systematically shelling the villages behind our front which have been immune from bombard ment tor months reports up to monday afternoon showed that only two of our men had been wounded by such bom bardments with the clearing of the weather in the afternoon there was increased aerial activity often a dozen planes being angaged simul | taneously in air battles several combats were fought above our trenches in the past 24 hours the situation in the actual bat tle line of the american sector has been quiet loggy weather continued monday the germans shelled the roads be hind the american front with gas shells but there were no casualties Illinois jran hero the splendid behavior of our men under fire of the german artillery monday morning is especially men tioned in reports of the regimental commanders there were several in stances where men were slightly wounded and refused to go to the rear they bandaged their own wounds from their first-aid packs and remained in the trenches a private from east st louis 111 who was wounded in the leg was sent to a field dressing station de spite his vociferous protests after his wound had been dressed he in sisted that he be allowed to rejoin his comrades in the first line where a german attack was expected the illinoisan had his way and took his position in the firing trench re maining there until daylight resists his comrades when his comrades urged him to return to his dugout at least the only reply they got waÃŸ aw go on the violent outburst of artillery fire on saturday night stirred up both sides consequently the shelling along the whole front has been far above normal during the past twenty-four hours all day monday the guns were very active despite a thick mist which prevented aerial observation there was patrol work hly both sides on sunday night but no en counters / federal warrant names 5 packers iccused of plot to raise armyi prices heney says raid on j veeder's safe was successj andis halts search until today j but only after u s attorneys j have gone through papers Chicago packers combining in violation of the sherman act -< have defrauded the united states by collusive bidding in the sale of food to the army and navy this is one of five felonies specifi cally charged against the beef barons in a search warrant issued yesterday by federal judge landis under this writ district attorney clyne and francis 1 heney attorney rox the federal trade commission seized the records of henry veeder legal co-jnsel for swift &. co they carried away a suitcase filled with confidential correspondence of lÂ»e packers veeder defied deputy united states marshalÃŸ who took pos session of his vaults and refused them access to a small inner safe veeder gets stay too late says heney then veeder fought back his at torneys appeared before judge landis late yesterday afternoon they ob ined a stay of the investigation un il 10:30 o'clock this morning when arguments will be heard meanwhile he deputy marshals are in posses sion the raid was a success we got â€¢. hat we were looking for an â– lounced mr heney last night 1 anticipate no physical obstacles which ill interfere with my plans to open he inner vault to-morrow judge landis has ordered that we may not peruse the papers taken to-day but my investigators looked them all over before that order was given the only effect of the order is that it prevents our making verbatim copies of fifteen packages of docu ments now in judge landis cus tody we are prevented from spend ing all night to-night copying the papers but that is only a temporary hints at meetings to fix prices when asked if any of the docu ments revealed that various packers have been meeting regularly in mr veeder's office to fix meat prices mr heney said if i revealed that i would be lia ble to a year in the penitentiary for contempt your question naturally is based on testimony already brought out which indicates the packers met and fixed prices at mr veeder's of fice every monday night during the brief arguments before judge landis the government clearly indicated the entire matter would joon be brought before a federal jrand jury price control and false entries charged the five charges the jury will be asked to investigate are 1 storing for the purpose of lim iting the supply and affecting the market controlling prices of large quantities of meats canned goods fish cheese eggs butter and oleomargarine in violation of the trade commission and sherman acts 0 making false entries in the books of swift & co concerning the ownership and control of subsid iary companies for the purpose of hoodwinking the federal trade commission 3 making false entries in accounts 1 and other records which are 1 Ã¼b.iect to investigation and exami harrison going to aid pershing as executive washington feb s.â€”for mer mayor carter harrison of Chicago probably will go to france within a few weeks on an important mission for the war de partment as a result of represen tations made by his friends show ing his experience as a handler of men should make him useful the nature of his work could not be learned mr harrison is expected to arrive in washington thursday to confer with secre tary of war baker representative adolph sabafa of Chicago who says mr harri son signified his willingness to perform any service the govern ment might ask of him added that the administration indicated it would be glad to have harrison as a volunteer hotels put on meat rations u s food administration limits j amount to six ounces per meal a maximum meat ration of six ounces for each meal will follow an order issued by th,p food administra tion at washington yesterday limit ing bread served in hotels restau rants and dining cars to two ounces per meal this was announced last night by sidney d goldenberg vice president of the john r thompson company who attended the conference in wash ington last wednesday at which the ration plan was decided upon an official order directing the meat ration will be issued in the immedi ate future according to mr golden berg what you may order portions of meat will be limited according to the following schedules steaks â€” maximum of 6 ounces ilon.xt beef â€” 5 ounces ham 8 ounces pork â€” 5 ounces mutton chops â€” 3 ounces it was decided that two persons would be allowed to share a sirloin steak of not over 14 ounces said mr goldenberg porterhouse steak welching three pounds gross must be divided by three persons the six-ounce meat maximum mr goldenberg declared is approximate ly the bulk of the ordinary tender loin steak the bread ration order issued yes terday provides that when bread made of corn oatmeal or bran is served portions may be increased to four ounces the weight of rolls is limited to one ounce under the new regulations public eating places are licensed and the ration plan was ordered under this authority the hotel la salle estimated yes terday a 25 per cent saving in raw flour the blackstone began to observe the ruling last night the audito rium hotel directed waiters not to serve second helpings of bread un der any consideration the congress hotel has been serving approximately two-ounce portions for several weeks limit two slices restaurant managers declared that the order practically limits in dividual bread portions to two slices vogelsang's stillson's kuntz icenimler king's rector's the north american the bismarck garden and other places will cut their portions considerably under the washington order hotels are to be forced into immediate ob servance of monday and wednesday as wheatless days tuesday as meat less day and saturday as porkless day in addition to the observance of one meatless meal every day kuehlmann to wed german heiress london feb 5 â€” a dispatch from amsterdam says dr von kuehlmann the german secretary of loreipn af falrf is betrothed to frau von fried laenderfuld reported germany's rich est woman after frau bertha krupp she is the divorced wife of the hon orable mitford son of the late lord redeedala cap streeter's famed shipwreck held myth cap george wellington streeter's story of the big wind which ship wrecked him july 10 1886 was shat tered yesterday henry j cox weather forecaster produced records in judge pinckney's court showing that the day when the captain in sists he landed on the district of lake michigan was fair as were several days preceding and follow ing mr cox was called by the chi cago title & trust company which has one end of the fight against streeter for ownership of the dis trict arthur s prague's son shoots his playmate edward dillon 14 son of t j dil lon lagrange was accidentally shot monday while playing soldiers by arthur sprague sprague is the son of the late arthur w sprague for mer president of the american steel & wire company edward is not ex pected to live j d rockefeller jr.'s coal will be seized tarrttown n t feb r the coal supply of john d rockefeller jr.'s mansion here probably will be commandÂ»ered by fuel administrator law it w learned to-day bolsheviki declare war on religion order churches seized monks and red guards battle prelate calls for holy war curses leninites reds decree abolishes marriage rites forbids bible teaching petrograd feb 5 â€” premier le nlne signed a decree to-day abso lutely separating the church from the government and confiscating all church property the decree permits religious societies to use the prop erty but vests the title in the state religious freedom is guaranteed so long as religious societies do not in terfere with the republic the re ligious oath is canceled marriages by religious ceremony is abolished i and religious teaching is forbidden in state and private schools church calls holy war the most rev dr tikon patri arch of all russia has retaliated with a declaration of a holy war against the bolsheviki the patriarch has issued the following proclama tion at moscow the holy orthodox church is passing through a hard time it is an open secret that its enemies are perpetrating persecutions against christ's teachings they want to kill christ's cause excite hatred and bring fratricidal war come to reason stop your bloody fratricide this is the work of satan by the power given to us by god we forbid you to participate in christ's communion we ex communicate you if you still have christian names if even only by birth you belong to the orthodox church calls on churqh to fight we pray all the faithful chil dren of the orthodox church not to come into contact with such out casts of mankind throw the evil from among yourselves the anathema closes with an ap peal by the patriarch through all church prelates calling upon all the parishes to fight and suffer for the sanctity of the church the department of public welfare charges that when bolshevik troops went to seize the alexander nevsky monastery the monks offered forcible resistance they rang all the mon astery bells summoning the parish ioners and attacked the red guard with clubs the soldiers were forced to shoot in self-defense the state ment says one monk named stiperov was killed woman orders seizure the seizure of the monastery was ordered by mme kolontay minister of social welfare small parades of church members were held to-day in protest against the bolshevik decree the largest parade was at the kazan cathedral plaza bare-headed prelates in full regalia marched along the nevsky prospect carrying crosses and sacred images with laymen following in the orthodox churches priests urged the people to fight to the last rather than surrender the holy im ages roosevelt undergoes operation improved oyster bat feb 5 c01 theo dore roosevelt was operated upon several days ago for an abscess it was learned to-day when he was re moved to new york city where he will be nearer his physicians it was stated to-night that the ex prpsident's condition was exeeltent and that he will be able to be about in a week or ten days u s lists aliens here the examiner prints to-day the names of enemy aliens reg istered by the police at the direc tion of u s marshal bradley the list was made public by au thority of the government it will be found on page 11 peace bids to delayu.s.,says northcliffe new york feb 6 viscount northcliffe is unshaken in his belief that german peace feelers are only part of an insidious propaganda to hamper the war activities of the allies it is most obvious he cabled to-day that the simplest way to delay american war preparations is for the germans to suggest that peace is imminent and that preparations are unnecessary we went through this phase of german propaganda two years or more ago and pay no attention to it now ludendorff to be dictator real purpose of return to berlin plan to direct war on social ists report berne feb 5 â€” germany has lost 1,300,000 in dead alone and as many more have been wholly or partly incapaciated herr segltz socialist declared in the bavarian diet berne ' feb 6 â€” quartermaster general lidendorff is reported to have arrived in berlin to inaugurate a hlndenburg dictatorship officially it is explained that he and dr von kuehlmann and count czernin the german and austrian foreign ministers went to the capi tal for a discussion of political and economic questions of joirt interest to germany and austria the vorwaerts says war has been declared on the social democracy it is generally believed ludendorff's real purpose is to direct the war moabit the working class district of berlin is in control of the mili tary three courts-martial are in flicting the severest punishment to soldiers home on leave who aided the strikers all soldier agitators have been placed under military arrest strike ended says hkiii.i.v amsterdam feb 5 â€” dispatches from germany to-day tended to con firm an official announcement made in berlin yesterday that the great strike is practically ended the following semiofficial state ment dated monday was received to-day from berlin in other big armament works the number of those at work va ries from 75 to 80 per cent of their complement drastic laws threatened german editors discussing the strike charge it was fomented by foreigners which is a poltta allusion to trotsky who is not to be openly insulted the nord deutsche allgemeine zeitung the government's mouth piece to-day threatened more drastic labor laws it says the strike means the prolongation of the war indi cating the german government's view that the strike has stiffened the bol sheviki at brest-litovsk and the fear that a separate peace with russia cannot be thought of except on rus sia's terms gibbons denounces dry amendment baltimore feb s cardinal gibbons to-night denounced the na tional prohibition amendment and declared that legislators of the states should not bow to fanaticism that seems to be ruling us in this re spect it will be a calamity if this amend ment is adopted said the cardinal k will be only a step for tho abridgment of other liberties that we enjoy germany deceived about u s troops berne feb b â€” secretary of war baker's statement that there will be 500,000 american troop in france early this year has been distorted by german newspapers the muenchener nachrichten made the fiumber 50.000 the cologne zsltuns ', says several divisions will b in france we have the ships to be baker's reply wilson shunning allied politics by h h stansbury america free to treat separately with central powers entang ling alliance on peace avoided staff correspondent of the chlrnso eiamlnrr washington feb s.â€”the of ficial attitude of the united states toward european pol itics with particular reference to the peace movement in austria-hun gary was set forth to-day by an administration spokesman as fol lows president wilson has reserved the right to deal with the purely political phases of the situation within the central empires inde pendent of the allies the same status prevails concerning russia the formal statement issued by the british french and italian premiers after the recent versailles conference did not commit the united states u s did not join in rejection of speeches in substance this declaration asserted the allies found in the re cent teutonic utterances no real approximation to thje moderate conditions laid down by the allies only the governments whose premiers have spoken are bound our war resources are at the command of the allies but there are no entangling political alli ances hindenburg's latest boast that he will be in paris by april was not taken seriously here according to this official for he had been told there will be no food left in germany by next may collapse of parley with russia expected there is said to be every indica tion the brest-litovsk peace nego tiations will collapse such an event it is believed will cause new upris ings both in germany and austria hungary a pamphlet which reached wash ington to-day through official chan nels made known the determined at titude of the german socia-lists it was signed by twenty-seven inde pendent socialists in the reichstag including bernstein dittmann haase and ledebour excerpts follow if the powerful voice of the la boring people is not heard in this crisis it would seem as if they in dorsed this agitation as if the ger man people had not had enough of the grewsome misery of this war the truth is that the masses think and feel otherwise they de mand the end of this blody slaugh ter this devastation and destruc tion this misery and hunger so far our opponents have had the world and have noisily dictated to the government and public opin ion men and women workers no time is to be lost after terrors and suffering a new and more fear ful peril threatens our people and all humanity only peace without annexations and without indemnities based on the right of the sel'-determination of all peoples can save us the hour has come to raise your voices for such a peace you now have the word president andhurley confer on tonnage by james nourse j wilson incensed by senator's charge that million men can't be moved to tell allies pact start correwiiondcnt of tue chlca_h examiner fll washington feb s l^h hargv made bv sci^^^h hitchcock in his spe'ecl^m tho senate that america will ncfl able to maintain a large armyh france will be fully answered i secretary of war baker to-nior^b when he appears before the sen military affairs committee we have the ships will be jfl reply of the administration l senator's accusation that lack oflh ping will make it impossible to m port a million men to europe a h supply them while there isbi secretary baker's statement iv h made with full authority uii'^j proval cf the president petalm his statement were ronsidereh white house conferences to-do^^^h which secretary of i!ie navy j^anie^b also participated vj wilson sees need to 1 reply to hitchcock s all ite'ns of information which ca.-m be given to the country by way fl refuting senator hitchcock's wlde^hj heralded accusations were gone jb the president agreed with the c^j inet members that the statementchh senator hitchcock called for imih diate and vigorous reply it fl therefore arranged to have secret^h baker lay before the committee fl tain facts calculated to set themh ministration and war department risht in the public mind 1 it is not known how far secre-b tary baker will be privileged to go in revealing the war department's flans for adequate tonnage many things are known by the few outsld cf the war department which could not be revealed even to the senata committee without harm to this coun try's cause i quota of u s army j settled at paris i secretary baker may find it necesÃŸ sary to speak only in the most gerfl eral terms to carry his point to tlfl committee 9 he may not be able to relate ~ fl example all tho details of i 9 versations at the interallied v,b councils in paris at which the u;^b tion of america's quota of troops fb this year was settled as was th question of how to get the troops ahj their supplies over there it is definitely stated in adminis tration circles by way of reply to senator hitchcock's charge that at the war council america was urged to send a large army to franco earlyl this spring it is further stated that when the matter of shipping aroeoj england agreed to place a sufficient number of her own vessels at disposal of the american government m england rations people â– to furnish u s ships m as earnest of i her sincerity mb is said england's representati^hj agreed to place their own people^hj short food rations to get a ships to supply america's nee^s^hh these plans are now sald^hj been worked out in su<-_fl tiittt the ships to be diverteflvflfl^hj kaiser confers with his allies one at a time london feb 6 a series of conferences occurred at ber lin yesterday according to wire less messages received here the conferees included kaiser wil liam the crown prince vaseil radoslavoff bulgarian premier count czernin austro-hungarian foreign minister and talaat pasha turkish grand vizier each was received separately emperor william presided at a crown council afterward the conferences continued throughout the day cabinet plans to rush troops by stanley m reynolds hurley called to white house on transport needs cut in imports considered i international news service staff cor respondent washington feb 5 â€” pres ident wilson took further steps to-day to upset the calculations of the german general staff which is staking everything on the expecta tion that its spring drive can be struck before the united states can play any appreciable part to-day's cabinet meeting one of the most protracted in weeks is un derstood to have been devoted almost entirely to the problem of rushing troops and supplies to france all the military departments were represented but the state depart ment handling the political aspects of the war was not british to train u s men the american general staff is studying a plan to place large num bers of american troops with the british veterans in flanders in addi tion to that portion of pershing's force that is holding a sector in lor raine an invitation from the british war office to send 150,000 american re cruits to the british lines for train ing is being seriously considered the british have offered to supply all the equipment use british shipping congestion at american debarka tion ports in france lies back of the suggestion by diverting troops to british ports passing them through the british system and transferring them to general pershing's army a considerable body of men could be put on th firing line who otherwise could not be sent to france for months by utiing british shipping training camps and supply lines it has been urgedy general i'ershlng's force could be expanded greatly without a pro portionate increase in the demand on american shipping food crisis in spring lord rhondda warns loxdox feb s lord rhondda food controller at a confidential conference with 100 members of the house to-night gave them detail of the food situation and the existing stocks and discussed extending com pulsory rationing to the whole coun try an official report says lord rhondda stated the situation would he most difficult in the next two months and asked all possible help ex aid of lowden buys pig for 10,000 a ten-months-old pig was sold yes terday for 10,000 thomas a stan ton of wheaton formerly governor lowden's farm manager was the pur chaser the price probably broke the world's record according to l e frost editor of the berkshire world the pig was raised for breeding pur poses at martinjville inc continued on 4th page 3d column | lip l2 the weather jl2 fg^m '! '.' l"nrtjy cloudy and much ' â€¢ pj^m r l lynrmer wedneadny with hlgh hw cat temperature considerably above freer.liiei thnraday cloudy 8 and colder moderate aouth s treat vrlnda wednesday liccom jj â€” i ins northerly thuraday i â€” â– ' i tehpekatihei l ' k highest 21 1 lon-eat â€” 5 mean s venus pencils for exacting difficult work venus perfect pencils an a necessity â€” advertisement f final i ljeditiowi

Chicago examiner wednesday wednesday Chicago febkuaky 6 1918 resiwteud potr two pt^'ntt'si in'fh'cago elsewhere n btp3Â«ltoÂ«lcc -Â»â€¢ iviclil vu andsubuhb3 three cents vol xvi no 40 a m air battles over u.s . front by newton c parke dozen planes eight above pershing line german gunners smarting from recent defeat shell defense less villages in american rear Illinois private hero of saturday brush wounded he spurns aid and rejoins ranhs i n s staff correspondent with the american army in france feb s the germans apparently anger ed at the effectiveness of our artil lery fire are systematically shelling the villages behind our front which have been immune from bombard ment tor months reports up to monday afternoon showed that only two of our men had been wounded by such bom bardments with the clearing of the weather in the afternoon there was increased aerial activity often a dozen planes being angaged simul | taneously in air battles several combats were fought above our trenches in the past 24 hours the situation in the actual bat tle line of the american sector has been quiet loggy weather continued monday the germans shelled the roads be hind the american front with gas shells but there were no casualties Illinois jran hero the splendid behavior of our men under fire of the german artillery monday morning is especially men tioned in reports of the regimental commanders there were several in stances where men were slightly wounded and refused to go to the rear they bandaged their own wounds from their first-aid packs and remained in the trenches a private from east st louis 111 who was wounded in the leg was sent to a field dressing station de spite his vociferous protests after his wound had been dressed he in sisted that he be allowed to rejoin his comrades in the first line where a german attack was expected the illinoisan had his way and took his position in the firing trench re maining there until daylight resists his comrades when his comrades urged him to return to his dugout at least the only reply they got waÃŸ aw go on the violent outburst of artillery fire on saturday night stirred up both sides consequently the shelling along the whole front has been far above normal during the past twenty-four hours all day monday the guns were very active despite a thick mist which prevented aerial observation there was patrol work hly both sides on sunday night but no en counters / federal warrant names 5 packers iccused of plot to raise armyi prices heney says raid on j veeder's safe was successj andis halts search until today j but only after u s attorneys j have gone through papers Chicago packers combining in violation of the sherman act -< have defrauded the united states by collusive bidding in the sale of food to the army and navy this is one of five felonies specifi cally charged against the beef barons in a search warrant issued yesterday by federal judge landis under this writ district attorney clyne and francis 1 heney attorney rox the federal trade commission seized the records of henry veeder legal co-jnsel for swift &. co they carried away a suitcase filled with confidential correspondence of lÂ»e packers veeder defied deputy united states marshalÃŸ who took pos session of his vaults and refused them access to a small inner safe veeder gets stay too late says heney then veeder fought back his at torneys appeared before judge landis late yesterday afternoon they ob ined a stay of the investigation un il 10:30 o'clock this morning when arguments will be heard meanwhile he deputy marshals are in posses sion the raid was a success we got â€¢. hat we were looking for an â– lounced mr heney last night 1 anticipate no physical obstacles which ill interfere with my plans to open he inner vault to-morrow judge landis has ordered that we may not peruse the papers taken to-day but my investigators looked them all over before that order was given the only effect of the order is that it prevents our making verbatim copies of fifteen packages of docu ments now in judge landis cus tody we are prevented from spend ing all night to-night copying the papers but that is only a temporary hints at meetings to fix prices when asked if any of the docu ments revealed that various packers have been meeting regularly in mr veeder's office to fix meat prices mr heney said if i revealed that i would be lia ble to a year in the penitentiary for contempt your question naturally is based on testimony already brought out which indicates the packers met and fixed prices at mr veeder's of fice every monday night during the brief arguments before judge landis the government clearly indicated the entire matter would joon be brought before a federal jrand jury price control and false entries charged the five charges the jury will be asked to investigate are 1 storing for the purpose of lim iting the supply and affecting the market controlling prices of large quantities of meats canned goods fish cheese eggs butter and oleomargarine in violation of the trade commission and sherman acts 0 making false entries in the books of swift & co concerning the ownership and control of subsid iary companies for the purpose of hoodwinking the federal trade commission 3 making false entries in accounts 1 and other records which are 1 Ã¼b.iect to investigation and exami harrison going to aid pershing as executive washington feb s.â€”for mer mayor carter harrison of Chicago probably will go to france within a few weeks on an important mission for the war de partment as a result of represen tations made by his friends show ing his experience as a handler of men should make him useful the nature of his work could not be learned mr harrison is expected to arrive in washington thursday to confer with secre tary of war baker representative adolph sabafa of Chicago who says mr harri son signified his willingness to perform any service the govern ment might ask of him added that the administration indicated it would be glad to have harrison as a volunteer hotels put on meat rations u s food administration limits j amount to six ounces per meal a maximum meat ration of six ounces for each meal will follow an order issued by th,p food administra tion at washington yesterday limit ing bread served in hotels restau rants and dining cars to two ounces per meal this was announced last night by sidney d goldenberg vice president of the john r thompson company who attended the conference in wash ington last wednesday at which the ration plan was decided upon an official order directing the meat ration will be issued in the immedi ate future according to mr golden berg what you may order portions of meat will be limited according to the following schedules steaks â€” maximum of 6 ounces ilon.xt beef â€” 5 ounces ham 8 ounces pork â€” 5 ounces mutton chops â€” 3 ounces it was decided that two persons would be allowed to share a sirloin steak of not over 14 ounces said mr goldenberg porterhouse steak welching three pounds gross must be divided by three persons the six-ounce meat maximum mr goldenberg declared is approximate ly the bulk of the ordinary tender loin steak the bread ration order issued yes terday provides that when bread made of corn oatmeal or bran is served portions may be increased to four ounces the weight of rolls is limited to one ounce under the new regulations public eating places are licensed and the ration plan was ordered under this authority the hotel la salle estimated yes terday a 25 per cent saving in raw flour the blackstone began to observe the ruling last night the audito rium hotel directed waiters not to serve second helpings of bread un der any consideration the congress hotel has been serving approximately two-ounce portions for several weeks limit two slices restaurant managers declared that the order practically limits in dividual bread portions to two slices vogelsang's stillson's kuntz icenimler king's rector's the north american the bismarck garden and other places will cut their portions considerably under the washington order hotels are to be forced into immediate ob servance of monday and wednesday as wheatless days tuesday as meat less day and saturday as porkless day in addition to the observance of one meatless meal every day kuehlmann to wed german heiress london feb 5 â€” a dispatch from amsterdam says dr von kuehlmann the german secretary of loreipn af falrf is betrothed to frau von fried laenderfuld reported germany's rich est woman after frau bertha krupp she is the divorced wife of the hon orable mitford son of the late lord redeedala cap streeter's famed shipwreck held myth cap george wellington streeter's story of the big wind which ship wrecked him july 10 1886 was shat tered yesterday henry j cox weather forecaster produced records in judge pinckney's court showing that the day when the captain in sists he landed on the district of lake michigan was fair as were several days preceding and follow ing mr cox was called by the chi cago title & trust company which has one end of the fight against streeter for ownership of the dis trict arthur s prague's son shoots his playmate edward dillon 14 son of t j dil lon lagrange was accidentally shot monday while playing soldiers by arthur sprague sprague is the son of the late arthur w sprague for mer president of the american steel & wire company edward is not ex pected to live j d rockefeller jr.'s coal will be seized tarrttown n t feb r the coal supply of john d rockefeller jr.'s mansion here probably will be commandÂ»ered by fuel administrator law it w learned to-day bolsheviki declare war on religion order churches seized monks and red guards battle prelate calls for holy war curses leninites reds decree abolishes marriage rites forbids bible teaching petrograd feb 5 â€” premier le nlne signed a decree to-day abso lutely separating the church from the government and confiscating all church property the decree permits religious societies to use the prop erty but vests the title in the state religious freedom is guaranteed so long as religious societies do not in terfere with the republic the re ligious oath is canceled marriages by religious ceremony is abolished i and religious teaching is forbidden in state and private schools church calls holy war the most rev dr tikon patri arch of all russia has retaliated with a declaration of a holy war against the bolsheviki the patriarch has issued the following proclama tion at moscow the holy orthodox church is passing through a hard time it is an open secret that its enemies are perpetrating persecutions against christ's teachings they want to kill christ's cause excite hatred and bring fratricidal war come to reason stop your bloody fratricide this is the work of satan by the power given to us by god we forbid you to participate in christ's communion we ex communicate you if you still have christian names if even only by birth you belong to the orthodox church calls on churqh to fight we pray all the faithful chil dren of the orthodox church not to come into contact with such out casts of mankind throw the evil from among yourselves the anathema closes with an ap peal by the patriarch through all church prelates calling upon all the parishes to fight and suffer for the sanctity of the church the department of public welfare charges that when bolshevik troops went to seize the alexander nevsky monastery the monks offered forcible resistance they rang all the mon astery bells summoning the parish ioners and attacked the red guard with clubs the soldiers were forced to shoot in self-defense the state ment says one monk named stiperov was killed woman orders seizure the seizure of the monastery was ordered by mme kolontay minister of social welfare small parades of church members were held to-day in protest against the bolshevik decree the largest parade was at the kazan cathedral plaza bare-headed prelates in full regalia marched along the nevsky prospect carrying crosses and sacred images with laymen following in the orthodox churches priests urged the people to fight to the last rather than surrender the holy im ages roosevelt undergoes operation improved oyster bat feb 5 c01 theo dore roosevelt was operated upon several days ago for an abscess it was learned to-day when he was re moved to new york city where he will be nearer his physicians it was stated to-night that the ex prpsident's condition was exeeltent and that he will be able to be about in a week or ten days u s lists aliens here the examiner prints to-day the names of enemy aliens reg istered by the police at the direc tion of u s marshal bradley the list was made public by au thority of the government it will be found on page 11 peace bids to delayu.s.,says northcliffe new york feb 6 viscount northcliffe is unshaken in his belief that german peace feelers are only part of an insidious propaganda to hamper the war activities of the allies it is most obvious he cabled to-day that the simplest way to delay american war preparations is for the germans to suggest that peace is imminent and that preparations are unnecessary we went through this phase of german propaganda two years or more ago and pay no attention to it now ludendorff to be dictator real purpose of return to berlin plan to direct war on social ists report berne feb 5 â€” germany has lost 1,300,000 in dead alone and as many more have been wholly or partly incapaciated herr segltz socialist declared in the bavarian diet berne ' feb 6 â€” quartermaster general lidendorff is reported to have arrived in berlin to inaugurate a hlndenburg dictatorship officially it is explained that he and dr von kuehlmann and count czernin the german and austrian foreign ministers went to the capi tal for a discussion of political and economic questions of joirt interest to germany and austria the vorwaerts says war has been declared on the social democracy it is generally believed ludendorff's real purpose is to direct the war moabit the working class district of berlin is in control of the mili tary three courts-martial are in flicting the severest punishment to soldiers home on leave who aided the strikers all soldier agitators have been placed under military arrest strike ended says hkiii.i.v amsterdam feb 5 â€” dispatches from germany to-day tended to con firm an official announcement made in berlin yesterday that the great strike is practically ended the following semiofficial state ment dated monday was received to-day from berlin in other big armament works the number of those at work va ries from 75 to 80 per cent of their complement drastic laws threatened german editors discussing the strike charge it was fomented by foreigners which is a poltta allusion to trotsky who is not to be openly insulted the nord deutsche allgemeine zeitung the government's mouth piece to-day threatened more drastic labor laws it says the strike means the prolongation of the war indi cating the german government's view that the strike has stiffened the bol sheviki at brest-litovsk and the fear that a separate peace with russia cannot be thought of except on rus sia's terms gibbons denounces dry amendment baltimore feb s cardinal gibbons to-night denounced the na tional prohibition amendment and declared that legislators of the states should not bow to fanaticism that seems to be ruling us in this re spect it will be a calamity if this amend ment is adopted said the cardinal k will be only a step for tho abridgment of other liberties that we enjoy germany deceived about u s troops berne feb b â€” secretary of war baker's statement that there will be 500,000 american troop in france early this year has been distorted by german newspapers the muenchener nachrichten made the fiumber 50.000 the cologne zsltuns ', says several divisions will b in france we have the ships to be baker's reply wilson shunning allied politics by h h stansbury america free to treat separately with central powers entang ling alliance on peace avoided staff correspondent of the chlrnso eiamlnrr washington feb s.â€”the of ficial attitude of the united states toward european pol itics with particular reference to the peace movement in austria-hun gary was set forth to-day by an administration spokesman as fol lows president wilson has reserved the right to deal with the purely political phases of the situation within the central empires inde pendent of the allies the same status prevails concerning russia the formal statement issued by the british french and italian premiers after the recent versailles conference did not commit the united states u s did not join in rejection of speeches in substance this declaration asserted the allies found in the re cent teutonic utterances no real approximation to thje moderate conditions laid down by the allies only the governments whose premiers have spoken are bound our war resources are at the command of the allies but there are no entangling political alli ances hindenburg's latest boast that he will be in paris by april was not taken seriously here according to this official for he had been told there will be no food left in germany by next may collapse of parley with russia expected there is said to be every indica tion the brest-litovsk peace nego tiations will collapse such an event it is believed will cause new upris ings both in germany and austria hungary a pamphlet which reached wash ington to-day through official chan nels made known the determined at titude of the german socia-lists it was signed by twenty-seven inde pendent socialists in the reichstag including bernstein dittmann haase and ledebour excerpts follow if the powerful voice of the la boring people is not heard in this crisis it would seem as if they in dorsed this agitation as if the ger man people had not had enough of the grewsome misery of this war the truth is that the masses think and feel otherwise they de mand the end of this blody slaugh ter this devastation and destruc tion this misery and hunger so far our opponents have had the world and have noisily dictated to the government and public opin ion men and women workers no time is to be lost after terrors and suffering a new and more fear ful peril threatens our people and all humanity only peace without annexations and without indemnities based on the right of the sel'-determination of all peoples can save us the hour has come to raise your voices for such a peace you now have the word president andhurley confer on tonnage by james nourse j wilson incensed by senator's charge that million men can't be moved to tell allies pact start correwiiondcnt of tue chlca_h examiner fll washington feb s l^h hargv made bv sci^^^h hitchcock in his spe'ecl^m tho senate that america will ncfl able to maintain a large armyh france will be fully answered i secretary of war baker to-nior^b when he appears before the sen military affairs committee we have the ships will be jfl reply of the administration l senator's accusation that lack oflh ping will make it impossible to m port a million men to europe a h supply them while there isbi secretary baker's statement iv h made with full authority uii'^j proval cf the president petalm his statement were ronsidereh white house conferences to-do^^^h which secretary of i!ie navy j^anie^b also participated vj wilson sees need to 1 reply to hitchcock s all ite'ns of information which ca.-m be given to the country by way fl refuting senator hitchcock's wlde^hj heralded accusations were gone jb the president agreed with the c^j inet members that the statementchh senator hitchcock called for imih diate and vigorous reply it fl therefore arranged to have secret^h baker lay before the committee fl tain facts calculated to set themh ministration and war department risht in the public mind 1 it is not known how far secre-b tary baker will be privileged to go in revealing the war department's flans for adequate tonnage many things are known by the few outsld cf the war department which could not be revealed even to the senata committee without harm to this coun try's cause i quota of u s army j settled at paris i secretary baker may find it necesÃŸ sary to speak only in the most gerfl eral terms to carry his point to tlfl committee 9 he may not be able to relate ~ fl example all tho details of i 9 versations at the interallied v,b councils in paris at which the u;^b tion of america's quota of troops fb this year was settled as was th question of how to get the troops ahj their supplies over there it is definitely stated in adminis tration circles by way of reply to senator hitchcock's charge that at the war council america was urged to send a large army to franco earlyl this spring it is further stated that when the matter of shipping aroeoj england agreed to place a sufficient number of her own vessels at disposal of the american government m england rations people â– to furnish u s ships m as earnest of i her sincerity mb is said england's representati^hj agreed to place their own people^hj short food rations to get a ships to supply america's nee^s^hh these plans are now sald^hj been worked out in su